Thucydidis Olori filii. De bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo. Iidem Latinè, ex interpretatione Laurentii Vallae, ab Henrico Stephano nuper recognita. Quam Aemilus Portus, Francisci Porti Cretensis F. paternos commentarios accuratè sequutus ab infinita grauissimorum errorum multitudine nouissimè repurgauit, magnaque diligentia passim expolitam innouauit. In hac postrema editione quid praeterea praestetur, sequens pagina docet

Emilio Porto (ca. 1550-1616), late Renaissance humanist and translator. He received a humanist education under his father's guidance. Porto taught classical languages in Geneva (1569-1581) and later held a professorship at the Academy of Lausanne (1581-1592), from which he was dismissed. He relocated with his family to Frankenthal and subsequently to Heidelberg, where he enrolled at the university in 1593. He earned a Magister degree in 1596 and was appointed Professor of Greek and rhetoric, holding various academic posts until his resignation in 1609. After leaving Heidelberg, Porto taught in Kassel and later at the academic Gymnasium in Stadthagen. He published Latin translations and scholarly editions of classical authors including Thucydides (1594), Xenophon (1595), Euripides (1597), and Aristophanes (1607). He also translated works by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Proclus, and Homer, and compiled the Dictionarium Jonicum Graeco-Latinum (1603), a lexicon on Herodotus' Ionic Greek. His Latin translation of Proclus' Theologia Platonica appeared posthumously in 1618, followed by his translation of the Suda in 1619. DB

Francesco Porto (1511-1581), humanist. After studying in the Peloponnese under Arsenios Apostolis, bishop of Monemvasia, Porto moved to Venice in 1527 and later taught Greek in Padua and at the Scuola dei Greci in Venice. He spent much of his career in Italy, notably in Modena (from 1536), where he became involved in the Accademia, a circle of scholars interested in both philology and Protestant ideas. His reformist leanings led to conflict with church authorities, particularly with Bishop Giovanni Morone. In 1545 he was appointed Professor of Greek eloquence and poetry at the University of Ferrara, where he also served as tutor to the daughters of Duchess Renata of France. After the dissolution of the Protestant circle around Renata in 1554, he was forced to flee Ferrara and live under an assumed name in Venice. Arrested and tried by the Inquisition in 1558, he was sentenced to penance and restricted movement after abjuring his views. In 1559, Porto fled to Geneva, where he was appointed Professor of Greek at the city's Academy by John Calvin. Despite financial hardship, he remained in Geneva for the rest of his life, becoming a naturalized citizen and a respected teacher. He edited and commented on numerous classical texts – Sophocles, Aeschylus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Homer. Treccani